When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz....

A mixed bag

By
PJC
on
10-01-14

She Is Evil!

Madness and Murder in Memphis

By:
Judith A. Yates

Narrated by:
Lee Ann Howlett

Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins

Unabridged

Overall

22

Performance

21

Story

21

Ejaz Ahmad was handsome, charismatic, and a self-made businessman. He arrived in the United States from Pakistan determined to fulfill his mother's dying wish....

Top-Notch True Crime

By
Tad B.
on
11-12-17

I Shall Live

Surviving the Holocaust Against All Odds

By:
Henry Orenstein

Narrated by:
Henry Orenstein

Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins

Unabridged

Overall

77

Performance

69

Story

70

I Shall Live tells the gripping true story of a Jewish family in Germany and Russia as the Nazi party gained power in Germany....

Gripping - Like You're in a Chinese Finger Trap

By
The Lifelong Learner
on
05-15-15

The Man from the Train

The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

By:
Bill James,
Rachel McCarthy James

Narrated by:
John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins

Unabridged

Overall

139

Performance

132

Story

132

Bill James applies his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history....

As good as true crime gets

By
6catz
on
09-25-17

Outcry: Holocaust Memoirs

By:
Manny Steinberg

Narrated by:
Gary Steinberg

Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins

Unabridged

Overall

85

Performance

78

Story

76

Mendel (Manny) Steinberg spent his teens in Nazi extermination camps in Germany and Poland, miraculously surviving while millions perished. This is his story....

Compelling Eye-witness Account

By
Bill S.
on
09-19-15

Saving Sophie

A Novel

By:
Ronald H. Balson

Narrated by:
Fred Berman

Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins

Unabridged

Overall

616

Performance

569

Story

571

Jack Sommers was just an ordinary accountant from Chicago - that is until his wife passed away, his young daughter was kidnapped, and he became an embezzlement suspect....

a must read

By
Rosalind
on
10-12-15

The Long Night

A True Story

By:
Ernst Israel Bornstein

Narrated by:
Ric Jerrom

Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins

Unabridged

Overall

25

Performance

25

Story

25

The Long Night is Ernst Israel Bornstein's first-hand account of what he witnessed in seven concentration camps....

Captivating!

By
Jim
on
07-11-17

Publisher's Summary

Helga Schneider was four when her mother suddenly abandoned her family in Berlin in 1941. When she next saw her mother, 30 years later, she learned the shocking reason why. Her mother had joined the Nazi SS and had become a guard in the concentration camps, including Auschwitz, where she was in charge of a "correction" unit and responsible for untold acts of torture.

Nearly 30 more years would pass before their second and final reunion, an emotional encounter in Vienna, where her ailing mother, then 87 and unrepentant about her past, was living in a nursing home. Let Me Go is the extraordinary account of that meeting and of their conversation, which powerfully evokes the misery of obligation colliding with inescapable horror.

Critic Reviews

"Rosenblat's narration captures the boastful, pitiable, and unrepentant mother in a matter-of-fact style that is both chilling and disturbing." (Booklist) "The story will bring tears to most listeners' eyes....Barbara Rosenblat's reading is astounding....the listener is chilled by the evil in her voice, and when she reads Schneider's words, the listener feels the anger and confusion that permeate the book." (AudioFile)

Stunning, Annoying, Haunting

I found this book because I was looking for books narrated by the great Barbara Rosenblatt. She's a national treasure.

This is one of the most profound books I've ever encountered. The balance of hatred and love. The longing for love. The unremitting digging by Helga at a mother who is both helpless and sadistic. As Helga is, too. I said "irritating," because I got really annoyed at the "why didn't you love me, mother?" repeated over and over in different ways. I wanted to say, "Oh, get a life." There was a certain amount of melodrama I got tired of. But the honesty was stunning and the ambiguity totally captivating. The descriptions of the people and places are marvelous.

Helga provides endless details and digs for more. Her obsessive research is one of the best things about this book. The factual info, in this context, is somehow even more horrible.

This is a picture, closeup, of a woman whose life lacked meaning (the mother) until she found a belief and a home in the SS and somebody to hate -- the Jews. It gives new meaning to the idea of a woman's leaving home to "find herself." She found herself quite contentedly in hell. And her daughter deals with it all both intellectually and emotionally with amazing insight.

Can't beat Rosenblat!

I found myself pulled into this book from the start. Barbara Rosenblat is a first class actress when it comes to reading. I think she has an amazing facility with nuance and emotion. The story is engaging, and all through the story, I felt that I was watching a play unfold on stage.

The story itself is interesting, giving a somewhat different view of the holocaust period. The story weaves personal tragedy with tragedy on a tremendous scale, and manages to hold its own. There are so many delicate touches and details in the story that it's easy to conjure the scene in the mind's eye, as if watching it on stage in front of you.

Excellent narrator but uninteresting characters

This is a true story about a woman who has only seen her mother twice since the woman was a little girl. The mother is an unpleasant character. The second visit is what the book focuses on. By the time of the second visit, the mother is not only unpleasant but seems to be suffering from senile dementia. I quickly lost interest in the mother. There did not seem to be any reason for the daughter to be visiting her. I lost interest in the story and starting skipping ahead. The narrator was excellent however.

Great Story

The Narrator of this story is great, as is the story itself. I couldn't imagine being left behind by a Mother who went onto evil, and left me with a person who didn't love me. Looking for closure, in a life with a gapping hole. Sad, but good.

Horrifying

What made the experience of listening to Let Me Go the most enjoyable?

It tears your feelings while you are waiting for a good ending.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I felt sorry for Helga and outraged about her mothers stubbornness and lack of acceptance.<br/>The mother might well clinge to her beliefs till the end but one kind of hopes that she would take in her daughter even so.

Upsetting but very telling

This book is well written and I love the narration. The accents and the descriptions really places the reader in the room during this visit with an elderly Hitler follower who still 100% believes what she did was correct. This daughter has more patience than I would have and that's good because it allows the reader to see inside a very very sick mind.